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[slfl Mtlmmgimt dhmtutg Star ■££ T^TtbT—NO. 250 " " ----------—---— - --- WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 • sv rf fl Iff I W — _ _ ISERNIA IS SEIZED IN SURPRISE ALLIED A TTA CK ON NAZIS foe reeling back Beaten Nazi Troops Flee ing Across Gargliano Valley U. S. IS IN PURSUIT Improved Weather Enables .Clark To Use Armor ed Forces ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Nov. 4.—(IP) _Striking' boldly in pre-dawn darkness, British and Cana dian Troops of Sir Bernard L Montgomery’s Eighth Ar my captured the vital road iunetion of Isernia at the central hinge of the German line early today as the ene r,v reeled back in almost ev ery sector of the Italian front On the Fifth Army front „ear the Mediterranean coast beaten Nazi troops streamed across the 14-mile-wide Ga rigliano valley toward their next refuge in the Aurunci mountain range, closely pur sued under clearing skies by British and American fences that knocked them from :heir e’aborate positions on Jlassico ridge and San Croce mountain in bitter fighting ; rCr-J-o«/^o v Only 85 Allies From Rome The improved weather enabled It. Gen. Mark W Clark to rush quantities of tanks and heavy ar tillery into the pounding pursuit of the Germans along the two main highways to Rome, less than 85 miles away. With the capture of Isernia the whole German defense system in the mountainous center of the fight ing front was threatened. The fall o! the big road junction to Mont gomery’s troops at 3 a.m. after a swift seven-mile advance and smashing night attack brought the Eighth Army to within 90 miles oi the Italian capital. Loss of the city deprived the Germans of the only food lateral road between the to rings of their line. -”e enemy’s flight across the Garigliano valley was being car si out under the protection of hs most extensive demolitions and f .cue fields yet left in the path o' the Allies’ inexorable advance. At the end of yesterday’s fight ing. Clark's troops had clawed their way beyond the town of Ses sa Aurunca, which is on the main coastal road (the Appian W a y) only about four miles from the | Garigliano river. In reaching Ses- ‘ sa Aurunca. British troops fought through a narrow, heavily-defend ed corridor on the inland side of Massico mountain. fhf'nrno j _;n___ tvere swept up as the Fifth Army dug out gains of from five to eight wiles along a 40-mile front. In ad dition to Sessa Aurunca, Clark’s forces took Roccamofina_ at the foot of San Croce mountain, and 1 Presenzano, only seven miles south °f Venafro, one of the enemy’s main central bastions. An Allied communique described these as 'satisfactory advances.” A savage battle was reported raging around the railway station °‘ ®au Salvo at the Adriatic end of the front, where the Eighth >rny gained its original bridge lead aci'°ss the Trigno river. The >cimans lost 20 tanks into furious 'counterattacks, but at the end of . c.av of bloody fighting Montgom y s men were reported to have * iven mem back, gained some ' mi glj u”d and taken prisoners. hrmfffi? ne Eighth Army pressed ' , ^ 11 more towns and vil 2 s, including Roccamandolfi, 6 Continued on Page Seven; Col. 4) --V WEATHER FORECAST: IR ta,s’ern Standard Time) Meteornw ?’ Weather Bureau Wiing 7°.,0nglcal data £or the 24 hours 6 '-30 p. m„ yesterday. J-7q . Temperature P- in., 61 ?:in48' 7:30 a’ m" 43' 1:30 Minimum’ p' m-' 57- Maximum 68, Um 42, Mean 55, Normal 59, 1:30 . Humidity F si., ;s ”1- ,31' 7;30 a. m., 75, 1:30 ' ,h' ‘:30 n. m, 62. Total f Precipitation i » m non hours ending 7:30 T0fei °-00 inches. '•to inches06 the firEt o£ the month> [ Tides For Today W:lrair'Ston HW Low - 3:14a 10:39a MaS0»Wo Inlet 3:58P 11:18p inlet- 1:11a 7:24a Mo°re’s Inlet 1:52p 8:15p ‘met - 1:16a 7.29p 'if"' Topsail 1:57p 8:20p Elmore-s, In’* - 1:21a 7 34a Mil! Tim -- 2:02p 8:25p So Ea5Urn Standard) -fnon’rise’ i-m *'m-- Sunset, 5:16 p. m„ c»Pe FeeV^- p" Moonset, - <n Thursday Hltcg a‘ Fayetteville r’ at B 8 m., 9.17 feet. FIVE JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK IN SEA BATTLE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTRS, Friday, Nov. 5 —(#1—A Japanese cruiser and four destroyers were sunk in the Navy battle of American and Japanese warships near the Allies’ Bougain ville beachhead, it was announced officially today. Radio Tokyo previously had con ceded the loss of a cruiser and two destroyers in the battle fought Tuesday morning. The battle, which lasted more than two hours, occurred when en emy units were intercepted head ing toward the Empress Augusta bay sector on Bougainville’s west coast where American marines landed the day before. Two other Japanese cruisers and destroyers were hit. No Allied ves sels were lost in the naval fight. The Japanese force, believed to consist of four cruisers and eight destroyers, was met 40 miles from Empress Augusta. T'ne i n t e n se phase of the action lasted 90 min utes, but South Pacific headquar ters said the time of the fight and the subsequent pursuit of the flee ing enemy amontea to more than two hours. Later, the Japanese sent over 57 planes to attack the fleet units and 17 were downed. Thirty miles south of Bougain ville, where the first phase of the northern Solomons invasion open ed October 27 with invasion of tiny Treasury island by American and New Zealand forces, all or ganized enemy resistance has ceased. The fight against an estimated 200 Japanese there terminated on Wednesday, exactly a week after the invasion opened. Adding to the Japanese losses later on the same day of the naval Eight were three destroyers sunk and two heavy cruisers damaged ay MacArthur’s bombers during a aeavy raid on shipping at Rabaul. The Navy battle was fought in darkness and during rain squalls. After the Japanese task force broke off the fight, scattering in three groups toward Rabaul, the Allied units regrouped for the ex pected enemy air attacks which came after dawn. Although no Allied ship losses cccurred, “damage and casualties tvere sustained,” headquarters said. The Americans in the naval bat tle maneuvered brilliantly, divid (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) -V CHURCHILL SEES A FREE A NIA 5rime Minister Pledges That Nation To Be Given Liberty LONDON, Nov. 4.—(A1)—An Al aania “freed from her Axis yoke md restored to her independence svas pledged by Prime Minister Churchill in reply to a question in Commons today. , , At the same time he disclosed hat British liaison officers are iperating with Albanian guerrilas vho, he said, are counted upon to slay their part “in future mili tary developments in the Mediter ranean area.” ._, This hint, the broadest yet from my high Allied authority that United Nations arms may make i thrust into the Balkans, coin -ided with the summoning oy \dolf Hitler of the Bulgarian pre mier and foreign minister to the Herman Fuehrer's headquarters, apparently for the purpose of de manding more Bulgarian divisions o police the turbulent southeastern t+ nicn rnincided with the forth coming meeting pf the UurKisn coming meeting of Turkish For eign Minister Numan Menemen cioglu with Foreign Secretary An thony Eden and Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Cairo. These events — with their im mense implications for the Bal kans — suggested that the time for important decisions by b the Allies and the Germans was at hand. .... . Churchill’s disclosure that Alliea liaison has been established with the Albanian patriots whose coun try was seized in a Good Friday invasion in 1939 by Benito Musso lini’s Blackshirts, followed similar action in establishing military mis sions with the Yugoslavs and Greeks. The Yugoslav Partisans an nounced a few days ago that they had been joined by the Albanians in border fighting in Montenegro. That the Germans have their hands full and are in need of Bul garian divisions was apparent (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) Nazis Lose 2,700,000 Casualties Nearly 1,000,000 0 es Are Killed r en By Re. ^5^ STALIN IS PRAISED Report Followed By Spe cial Sons: To Rus sion Chief LONDON, Friday, Nov. 0. —(£>)—Germany has suffer ed 2,700,000. casualties, near ly 1,000,000 of them killed and captured, during four months of a still-rolling Red army offensive which threat ens to hurl the Nazi army out of Russia this winter, a special Moscow announcement disclosed last night. Since July 5 when the Ger mans “failed disgracefully” in their own brief offensive in the Orel-Kursk-Belgorod salient, the Russians have killed 900,000 Germans and captured 98,000. half of them wounded, said the special war review. Review Is Repealed The review, broadcast by Mos cow and recorded by the Soviet monitor, was repeated three times by the radio and followed by an “Ode to Stalin," the premier-mar shal of the Soviet Union, sung by the Red army choir. On the basis of previous official Moscow reviews, the Germans have suffered 9,100,000 casualties since they began the most sangui nary war in history with the in vasion of Russia June 22, 1941. Just before this triumphant an nouncement the regular daily com munique announced that Red arm ies had swept up to the lower Dnieper river opposite Kherson, the Black Sea port on the west bank near the river’s mouth, had captured the west bank highway town of Dimer, only 20 miles north of the Ukraine capital at Kiev, and reached a point only 54 miles from the Latvian border in a re newed drive from theh Nevel sector on the north central front. Berlin broadcasts recorded by the Associated Press also disclosed thaht fresh Russian shock troops had landed on three-day-old bridge heads near Kerch, at the eastern tip of the Crimea, which already (Continued on Page 11; Col. 6) Ex-Governor Hoey To Address Lions Club On Thursday Former Governor Clyde Hoey of Shelby Will be guest speaker at a meeting of thhe Wilming ton Lions Club next Tuesday night it was announced at the regular weekly luncheon of the club Thursday. The Tuesday meeting has been designated Ladies Night 1 and will be held at 8 p. m. at the Blue Top Lodge on Market 1 street road. An orchestra will 1 play for the occasion. ' New song books were issued J at the Thursday luncheon and 1 a song feast was the feature of the program. Henri Em murian was at the piano and Gene Bullard led the singing. j A sextette composed of Lions Bullard, Keith, Twining, , Marshburn, Lawson and Em murian presented selections. ( Lion president James presid ed at the meeting; Joe Hood read the minutes and Paul ( Marshburn gave the invoca tion. _ WPB REJECTS CITY PLEA FOR WA TER PIPELINE TO ICING’S BLUFF SOURCE; &MINE WA GE PACT MAY GET APPRO VAL ' A 'decision slated Majority Of Board Report ed Ready To Approve New Plan STUDY IS NECESSARY Hearing Adjourned Over night To Permit Fur ther Probes WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.— f/P) _ The War Labor Board was reported tonight to be ready to approve the agree ment worked out by John L. Lewis and Secretary of Inter ior Ickes to end the general coal strike. A decision is scheduled for 11 a. m. tomorrow. A majority of the board was ready to vote approval late today but a question arose about the detailed ap plication of the new wage scale to those who are paid by the ton rather than by the hour. The problem may call for some refinement in appli cation of the agreement to that group of employes. Ov ernight adjournment was :aken to permit further study rf the mathematics of the juestion. -mono Memoer* Keiuctant In a full discussion of the agree ment today, only the labor mem bers strongly supported it with enough of the public member* re uctantly indicating agreement '■> assure a majority. Industry mem bers did not express disapproval, and one excellent source said a decision tonight would have result ad in an 11 to 1 vote However, ;he lone dissenter, a public mem aer, may have company by voting :ime. And of course, informed sources also recognized the bare possibi lity that a change in sentiment might conceivably lead to an ad verse vote on the agreement, al ;hough this was considered unlike ly. Most of the 460,000 hard and soft :oal miners, on strike since Mon lay, remained idle during the day. rhey had been instructed by offi (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) -V MARIGNY PLEADS FOR HIS LIBERTY Defendant Firmly Denies That He Killed Sir Harry Oakes NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 4.—W 3rim-faced and earnest, Alfred de vlarigny pleaded for life and lib erty today with a firm-voiced de :ial that he slugged his aged fa her-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, and eft him to die in a flaming bed oom. There was ill-feeling, he admit ed, but de Marigny said he was ive miles away, in his own home md bed. about the time the multi nillionaire gold miner was attack ;d last July in his ocean-front es ate, Westboume. For 15 days of his trial for mur ier in the Bahamas supreme court, he handsome husband of Sir Har •y’s daughter Nancy had flirted :ers of the United Mine Workers Continued on Page 11s Col. 3) Republicans Triumph In Key Eastern State Elections BWWW^WWjJMJAWMSWWBg^^ pg-aw.ww/.^ These three Republican candidates, triumphant in key eastern state elections, enable the G. O. ] P. to view the off-year contest results as a signpost on the road which they hope will lead back to the White House in 1944. Walter E. Edge, (left) elected governor of New Jersey; State Senator Joe R. Hanley, (center) chosen lieutenant governor of Ne w’ York, and Acting-Mayor Bernard Samuel, (right) who won a full, term as Philadelphia’s mayor, def eating William C. Bullitt, ex-ambassador to Rus sia and France, who was endorsed by President Ro osevelt. (AP Wirephoto). GOP Sweeps Kentucky Election; Vinson Assails Tax Reductions - *,-k - Practically All State Of fices Claimed By Re publicans IS POLITICAL UPSET First Governor From Party Elected Since 1927 Races LOUISVILLE, Ky., 4.— UFI-Vir tually complete but unofficial re ports on Tuesday’s general elec tion showed tonight that Republi cans were elected governor, lieu tenant governor and to most of the other state offices in a sweeping upset. Simeon S. Willis of Ashland de feated J. Lyter Donaldson of Car rollton, Democrat, to become Ken tucky’s sixth Republican governor next month and the first of his party to win the office since Flem D. Sampson was elected in 1927. Reports from all but nine of the stat's voting precincts gave Willis, former appellate court judge, a margin of 8.067 over Donaldson, lawyer-banker and former state highway commissioner. The vote was Willis 278,219 and Donaldson 270,152. These reports gave Kenneth H. Tuggle, Republican, a close mar gin of 804 votes over William H. May, present Democratic commis sioner of agriculture, for lieutenant governor. Republicans seemed assured of victory in six out of nine state wide contests but in most of them the margin of success was narrow. Republicans continued to gain strength in the Kentucky Legisla ture but the General Assembly again will be predominately Demo cratic. The Republicans had 36 seats in the house, 11 more than they had last year. The Demo crats had 49 seats and 15 contests were not completed. The Republi cans had 11 Senate seats, two more than they had last year. The Demo crats had 21 Senate places and six races were in doubt. Wheeler Renews Plea For Ending Induction Of Nation’s Fathers WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—(AV Asserting that the Moscow agree ment "eliminates the need for fur ther expansion of our armed for ces,” Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) renewed tonight his demand for halting the drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. Wheeler said he had urged Chairman Reynolds (D-NC) of the Senate Military committee to seek a quick settlement of differences in Senate and House bill aimed at delaying the induction of fathers. Conferees of the two houses meet Monday. “Some people have urged as a reason for mobilizing a tremen dous army a fear that Russia and Germany might make a separate peace,” Wheeler told reporters. “In view of the fact that Russia has agreed with Gr«at Britain and the United States to carry on un til victory over Germany is as sured, there seems to be no rea son for building up the force now contemplated. , , “My own view is that under the circumstances the defeat of Ger many can be accomplished with out the necessity for a western front, saving possibly a million American lives.” HEAD REELECTED FOR FARM CROUP Peter Braak To Serve Sixth Term As Club President Peter Braak was elected presi dent of the Farmers’ club for the sixth consecutive year when that club met with the Federation of Home Demonstration clubs at Wrightsboro in their annual meet ing Thursday evening. Mrs. M. S. Emmart of Myrtle Grove was elect (Continued on Page 11; Col. 4> Stabilization Director Flays 'Political Cowardice’ In Land NEW LEVIES NEEDED Bankers Told That Further Revenue Necessary For U. S. NEW YORK, Nov. 4 —LF— Judge Fred M. Vinson, director of Eco nomic Stabilization, tonight de clared that “love of east, political cowardice and personal ambition” threaten betrayal of our fighting men overseas through failure to enact a tax program adequate to prevent inflation. In a fighting speech before the Investment Bankers’ Association of America, Vinson declared a mini mum of $10,500,000 in new taxes —the amount sought by the Ad ministration and trimmed to less than $3,000,000,000 by Congress— is necessary to present runaway inflation and financial disaster. The stabilization director said more income taxes, to be raised by lowering present personal and dependency allowances and in creased normal and surtax rates, were the most satisfactory meth od of taxation, based on "the tried and true principle ability to pay.” tt:_4-ViA . 4. spending spree for luxuries called for sharply increased excises on r.on-essentials. He cited increases in expenditures such as 104 per cent for fur as between months of 1943 and 1942, 65 per cent for coats and suits, 31 per cent for negligees, 30 per cent for caba rets, theaters and entertainment, 27 per cent in eating and drinking places and 30 per cent more for flowers as examples of luxury spending. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) Community War Chest Facts It is a little over two years ago that a group of citizens started working to get support for the United Service Organi zations, the USO as it is now affectionately known to mil lions of servicemen. More than 2,000,000 servicemen and wo men are audiences each month of USO Camp Shows. More than 16,000,000 visitors a month are entertained. Over 2,400 USO clubs are centered in this country and abroad. It is a home away from home for our servicemen and women." This is just one of the 27 agencies in the Community War Chest of Wilmington and New Hanover county. Swiss Reports Stress Poor German Morale As Result Of The Allied Bombing Attacks By KIRKE L. SIMPSON. Startling new estimates from Switzerland of the havoc b e i ng wrought on German morale by bombing attacks from Britain heavily underscore the mass An glo American raids on Wilhelms haven, Duesseldorf and Cologne. Die Nation, a Bern weekly, sets the total of bombed-out or evac uated citizens of the Reich at 8 - non non Every new Allied air Masting adds to that “by thou sS or tens of thousands,” it n°Thi's means that a tenth or more of the population of Germany has been routed from ;ts homes, y^ the long mghto^ea coming winter holds tor ha. hardly a. bombing from Italian British bases still is to get in full stride. Russian participation or cooperation to make it a three-way attack on the roofless Nazi citadel is yet to be reckoned with. That German public confidence in Nazi leadership must be shaken to its foundations cannot be doubt ed,. although the Swiss weekly dis putes the assumption that the Ger man army military caste is pre paring to discard Hitler and all he stands for as a preliminary to peace feelers. It contends that the Junkers must retain him to save their own hides from awakening German public wrath. He must remain tne symbol of personal re sponsibility for all the woes he has brought on Germany to the world and to his own people, it is as serted. ' That does not agree with most British and American informed opinion as to the course the Ger man military caste is likely to follow when the inevitable hour comes to admit defeat and make the best peace possible. Official thought in London and Washington has attached great significance to the fact that it was the army high command, not Hitler or is Nazi military stooges, who summoned recent conferences of leading Ger man personalities of all walks to discuss the darkening war outlook. This was stressed recently by Lord Halifax, British ambassador in Washington. He brought back with him from London word that British authorities are prepared for anything to happen in Germany at any time but also ready and determined to carry the war for ward aggressively to the bitter end however long it takes or hard the going. Former President Hoover cap ped that before a Congressional committee yesterday (Thursday) with the prediction that this prob ably would be the “last winter” of the war in Europe. And the Swiss estimates of the cumulative effect of ever - intensifying Allied bombing attacks on German pub lic morale do nothing to lessen the force of those British and American appraisals of the situ ation. On the contrary, Die Nation’s informant, apparently just back from Germany, said a state of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) ALTERNATE NOTED flood’s Creek Supply Said To Be Adequate For Needs DECISION IS FINAL Spokesman Says Action E pected To Last Until War Ends By HOWARD SETTL1S Star-News Washington Correspondent An unequivocal “NO” was the War Production Board’s answer Thursday to Wilming ton’s latest plea in a thre$ year fight for extension of the city’s pipeline to assure a fresh water supply. Russell Hogan, a spokes man for the War Production Board in Washington, an nounced Thursday that the request by the city of Wil mington for the continuation of the new water pipeline ex tension to King’s Bluff had definitely been rejected at a hearing in Washington Wed nesday at which City Attor ney W. B. Campbell, City Engineer J. A. Loughlin and consulting Engineer W. C. Olsen were present. No Justification Seen Hogan declared that the WPB's attitude was based on the premise that the water at Hood’s creels was ample for the city’* needs and the board could see no Justi fication for further extension. Hogan said that the decision was final and that there was no indication or possibility that the action would be reversed. If Wil mington is going to get a longer pipeline, it will have to wait until the war is over, Hogan declared. The city attorney and engineers went to Washington early this week to lay before the board the urgency of the situation relating to the salt content of the local water supply and to urge that materials necessary for construction be granted. <~uy oinciais contacted reserv ed comment until the local re presentatives have returned with a detailed account of the board’* action. They are expected to re turn early Friday. A committee of the Junior Chamber of Commerce which wa* recently appointed to investigate the city’s water supply said Fri day night that the Hood’s creek intake is not the permanent solu tion to Wilmington’s water sup ply and that it would be unfair to the taxpayers to accept any compromise. The Jaycees also plan to appoint a committee to work with the City Council and any and all civic organizations and civic-minded citizens to fight to the end for the proposed exten sion to King’s Bluff, it was learn ed. The campaign for extension of the pipeline began on November 1, 1940 when the city commission ers made a trip up the river to inspect Toomer’s creek and make a preliminary survey of the Capo Fear River for a long-range pro time to pump fresh water into ject. It was necessary at that the mains from deep wells a* a means of temporary relief from the saltiness. mtit n Olsen, consultant engineer of Ra leigh, to make a survey. He was later authorized to seek the aid of federal government geologists in finding a constant and reliable source of fresh water. It was ascertained from preliminary and subsequent surveys that the ex tension to King’s Bluff would furn ish the most permanent solution for the city’s water supply prob lem and funds were provided on that basis including a $600,000 bond issue. Brackish water has been a prob lem here since the city first be gan using the Cape Fear river as a source of raw water. Prior to 1921 the city water intake was from the Northeast river at Hil ton plant. From 1921 to 1922 the supply was rendered unsatisfac tory as the result of sewage con tamination, high salt content and unpleasant discoloration of the wa ter. After an exhaustive study it was decided to extend the intake to Toomer’s creek. Toomer’* creek was selected rather than Hayne’s because the water in the latter contained a high rate Of organic coloration and there was no assurance that salt contamina (Continucd on Page 11; Col. 5). •
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